Hi there! I am a funny and lovely Golden Retriever. I live near Viseu, in Portugal, and I am three years old now. I am here to show to you how my life is and to share my natural golden retriever happiness with the whole world! :D

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Mariana who really, really really wished to have a cuty dog. However, her parents were always saying “we can’t have a dog in the appartment”, “how is it gonna be when we want to go on holidays?”… and a lot of other things you can imagine. Anyway… her despair was so big that she even bribed Santa Claus once!

About three years ago, Mariana’s dream turned finally true! I don’t know how she did it, but the truth is that she made her family go with her to Pombal to Quinta da Formiga and pay you-don’t-wanna-know-how for a cute beautifulintelligent lovely sweet pure blood Golden Retriever: Me!

After a troubled trip, in which I almost made all my four humans vomitting with my extraordinary puke&poop habilities, i finally got home! It was weird… lonely, with none of my doggy brothers and sisters… and I didn’t know who that two-paws-beings were… so I went to the safest place in the whole house: under the kitchen chair. (I also barked – something the dog breeder told my humans i would never do…but I did).

After a few months (after a ripped coach, destroyed shoes, maggazines, newspapers, tows, CD’s, letters…) i could finally conquer my humans’ hearts and i could beat the evil place where they wanted me to go to:

The kennel! (available for only 80€!)... Yes, yes, I bet he’s pretty happy there too!... Well in my case, the poor one never got out of its box…

Anyway, nowadays I am 3 years old I live with my humans in the appartment and we go to our countryside house on our holidays, we go to the beach and stuff like that :D We also use to go to a place they call Vet once in a while… it’s nice, most of the times at least, and they give me biscuits in the end of each visit! I really love go there… That’s why Mariana almost falls in the ground everytime she take me there and i realize where we’re going to :D

My interests:

Only one:

I loooooveeee sleeeepiiinnnngg, it’s just sooo awesome! And dreaming, and snoring… and making weird noises too...

Hello there my friends! :D Sorry for being out for a while but Mariana went on holidays for three weeks and none of my human relatives knew how to work with the blog. I hope your holidays were as good as mine. While Mariana was in England, Mum, Dad, Big Bro and I went to Tocha! I met a lot of people this year and I saw a lot of friends I met last year! All of the human friends said I am really nice and friendly!However Mariana took her photographic machine with her and so we didn’t have any machine with us… So instead of show you my photos, I let Mariana post some of her photos of England here. I hope you like it :)

First of all: Me! This picture was taken by Mariana on the day she left. I knew that sooner or later she would leave because I saw her luggage. I shew her and my family my sadness in order to make her stay but the inevitable happened! So, when I saw her ready to go and with the machine on her hands I just could do my part: a big smile so she could remember me like that.

The plane: Mariana told me she took this photo when the plane was turning. I think plane travels weren’t made for me or my stomach.

Now Oxford little ladies and fellas! Isn’t it beautiful?

Oh look, this is Port Meadow. Mariana is telling me right now that Port Meadow is a kind of a park where cows, horses, ducks and other birds are completely free and you can walk near them because they are used to people. They also come to you to see if you have food! She totally recommends you visiting Port Meadow if you are in Oxford!

Here it is Christ Church where parts of Harry Potter were filmed!

And the dining room!

Now Cambridge! A really beautiful city! Mariana went punting there and she really loved it! You can see some gorgeous colleges and undercross some bridges while doing that.

Uouuuu look Mariana with her new sunglasses! This photo was taken at Trinity College where Isaac Newton studied!

Now London! Big Ben, you know it.

London Eye! What a big eye!

And yes, Mariana met Bob Marley!!! Can you believe that? She says it is a wax doll but of course I don’t believe her! I mean, a wax doll? I think Mariana needs to be a bit smarter the next time she wants to pull my leg...

On http://www.iniciativapet.com/ just by sign in you're giving a meal to an abandoned dog or cat. This is an initiative promoted by Purina and Proplan with the support of the Portuguese Animal Rights League and other associations. Don't think twice and help those little pets who depend on us to survive! Mommys, Daddys, Friends: if it was one of us needing food and care, you would probably give it to us!I am sorry for my foreign readers and friends but this initiative is just for portuguese consumers :(

A Mariana e o João (também meu Mano) foram comigo à rua à noite... E vocês podem ver o resultado :DMariana and João (also my brother) went out with me for a walk at night... And you can see the result :D

Hi again little friends! ^^ I can't wait to go to the beach for the first time this year ^^ Let me show you some photos from the last one (:

Yes I was going crazy :D

I am looking to a being... a weird being. It has a strange mouth... Mariana's saying it's called beak. And it has a different type of hair... it's way of walking is not really usual also... what a strange thing...